January's buds
May 2026 be the year of becoming...
manifesting this for 2026
(I’ve been thinking a lot about goals and success in times like these, about the illusion of getting anything achieved, about what really makes sense, and about how to build everyday rituals that feel generous, authentic, and not repressive or extractive. Still thinking how to articulate my thoughts and wishes.)
Becoming the Product - Beyond and Above Embarrassment: The Power of Autogossip Against Heterosexual Normativity
This month’s episode is the result of a “critical writing workshop” organised last semester, in which I aimed to show students how to build an argument around a topic of interest. In this episode, I draw on the “Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?” conversation to develop an inquiry into the processes and possibilities beyond embarrassment, as well as the lineage of deconstructing heterosexual dynamics in both private and public life. <3
Girl Employee’s first lecture in Spain, Valencia!
On February 7, Pluto will present GIRL EMPLOYEE live, a performance and live podcast recording that will address the political significance of information in what theorists call “the Information Age,” with a special focus on the history of women in broadcasting. Get to know more about the event here, and if you’re in Valencia, we hope to see you there! <3
Radio Povratne Zake Interview
Last month, I was invited to the Radio Študent program Povratne zanke, a monthly show on internet culture, theory, and literature hosted by Lea Sande. The episode focused on the concept of NPCs (Non-Playable Characters) and online research, drawing from the anthology Non-Playable Characters by the collective LAN Party to reflect on scripted behavior, algorithmic interactions, and patterns of subjectivity in online life.
In the second part of the show, I spoke about my book Becoming the Product: The Critical Internet Researcher as a Virtual Intellectual. We discussed online research as a specific practice, the position of the internet researcher as both participant and observer of digital culture, and how this role departs from traditional academic approaches. Feel free to have a listen here.
Transmediale Workshop with ASchool – Parallelities. Content, Cake, and Cables!
If you happen to be in Berlin for Transmediale, please join us at the workshop ASchool – Parallelities. Content, Cake, and Cables !
“As a group who temporally came together for learning, we understand our position as one of caring and humble Parallelities: as parallel to the many lineages of emancipatory feminisms, as in parallel to each other, and as in parallel to this year’s festival edition time-space stretch, where centers dissolve into lateral structures. This position indicates a loose-to-close-knit proximity of threads, with the given possibility that these corresponding lines meet in infinity. Each pathway, crossing and distant echo we explore produces traces—citational maps, protocols, rituals,—that we understand as documentation-as-praxis.”
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